Description
Boedo Percusión × Vieja Escuela de Bombistas Alliance
Bombo with Cymbals Workshop — Integral
What Is This Workshop?
This is the most tailored of the three: it's not built around one fixed format, but around each person's particular goal. It can be worked with small shells (16", 18", 20") or large shells (22", 24", 26") — the size and approach are defined by what the person actually needs, not the other way around.
What Will You Work On?
- Choosing the right size and tuning approach for your project: solo artist, small band (voice, guitar and bombo with cymbals), or a large band with many instruments.
- Accompaniment approaches for stage groups playing folklore, tango and vals.
- Technique built around each person's actual goal, not a single fixed format.
- Guidance on which size and tuning approach fits your specific project.
What Is a Class Like?
Our methodology is based on oral transmission, guided practice and respect for tradition. Every class combines technique, musicality, discipline and cultural connection, and is structured in 5 stages: rhythmic warm-up, technical exercises, learning rhythms, applied practice, and closing with reflection.
- Technique and posture.
- Traditional and fusion rhythms.
- Application in real contexts.
- Improvisation and creativity.
- History and culture of percussion.
- Rhythmic independence.
Who Is It For?
Musicians, solo artists, bands and stage acts looking to add the bombo with cymbals to their sound, with an approach built to fit.
Who Teaches It?
Zalo Battipaglia is a third-generation murguero: his grandfather founded "Los Dandys de Boedo" in 1956, and he grew up in the same neighborhood, in a tenement where the bombo and singing were part of everyday family life. Today he runs Vieja Escuela de Bombistas, a space dedicated to training percussionists of Buenos Aires carnival with the same oral tradition he learned from.
Format and Schedule
- 1-hour classes.
- 4 classes per month, 1 session per week.
- No need to own your own instrument.
- In person in Boedo (Buenos Aires), or remotely via Google Meet (online classes).
Classes are taught in Spanish. This page is available in English so international students can find us — live instruction (in person or online) is conducted in Spanish.
Level
Beginner, intermediate and advanced.
In every one of our workshops, we work to deepen the care, respect and recognition for the bombo with cymbals as part of Buenos Aires carnival — an instrument that represents Argentine popular culture and our identity.
Questions? Message us, we'll walk you through it before you sign up.
